aline
Two young German Wehrmacht soldiers surrender to Allied forces along a roadside during the Battle of the Bulge. If you look carefully, the soldier on the right is wearing US gaiters. The battle was Germany’s planned offensive with the primary goal to recapture the important Belgian harbor city of Antwerp from the Allies. The Battle of the Bulge is one of the most important Batlle in the entire World War 2. Photo taken Near Snamont, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium. 1 January 1945.

christine
266 British Soldiers Disappear In 1915 Without A Trace One of the strangest occurrences of the entire First World War – the disappearance of an entire regiment of men in the midst of battle during the infamous Gallipoli campaign. The incident came to light mainly through the eyewitness account of three members of a New Zealand field company, who said that they watched from a clear vantage point as a battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment marched up a hillside in Suvla Bay, Turkey.

catalina
Worn by countless medieval soldiers over the centuries, these stone stairs lead to Sperlinga Castle. . In the year 1282, during the period of the Sicilian Vespers, a French garrison barricaded itself inside, resisting the siege for an entire year

latisha
Archeologists have uncovered a 100-year-old watch in a tomb believed to have been undisturbed for 400 years. The mysterious timepiece was encrusted in mud and rock and had stopped at 10:06 am. Watches were not around at the time of the Ming Dynasty and Switzerland did not even exist as a country, an expert pointed out.

katherine
WW II’s Strangest Battle: Americans and Germans Fought Together - Days after Hitler’s suicide American soldiers, French prisoners, and German soldiers defended an Austrian castle against an SS division—the only time Germans and Allies fought together in World War II. Here are the facts: on 5 May 1945—five days after Hitler’s suicide—three Sherman tanks from the 23rd Tank Battalion/12th Armored Division liberated an Austrian castle called Schloss Itter a prison that housed various French VIPs.

hannahmnt
WW1: The Christmas Truce of 1914 remains a singular occurrence of combat troops taking it upon themselves to get to know the "enemy" instead of killing each other. In many parts of the Western Front, shooting stopped and soldiers from both sides emerged from the trenches to talk, exchange mementos, and play games. In this photo, British and German soldiers, their weapons very much present, fraternize in a way that made generals suffer strokes from their rage.

roberta
Native American Award for Valor, Courage and Bravery Is there a Native American symbol awarded to great warriors for valor, courage, and bravery in battle much like the Silver or Bronze Stars awarded to soldiers.

jolene
Battle of Shiloh, 4/6/1862 Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark | Even stranger, when troops were moved to field hospitals, those whose wounds glowed had a better survival rate, and their wounds healed more quickly.

lavonne
Ed W. "Too Tall" Freeman, United States Army helicopter pilot received the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Battle of Ia Drang during the Vietnam War. During the battle, he flew through gunfire numerous times, bringing supplies to a trapped American battalion and flying dozens of wounded soldiers to safety.

elisabeth
The Big and the Small of It This is an old, undated photograph of Martin Van Buren Bates and two unidentified dwarfs. Mr. Bates, who stood 7'5" tall, was born in Kentucky to normal sized parents. During the United States Civil War, he served as a soldier in the Confederate Army. Union soldiers spoke of a giant of a Confederate soldier who was as "large as five soldiers and fought like fifty."

angelique
Tactical Unattended Ground Sensor (T-UGS) is a deployable motion sensor. It collects seismic, acoustic, radiological, and electro-optic data to track any movement in its range. The T-UGS can track, classify, and identify any target within its range and relay it to across the network in almost real time to a platoon size element of soldiers as an early warning device.

christa
World War One German soldiers and dogs don gas masks in Reims, France during World War I in 1916. Only one year earlier, poison gas was deployed for the first time in war on a mass scale by the Germans in Ypres, Belgium. The battle marked the birth of weapons of mass destruction.

lenore
In September 1940, four boys and a dog set out on an adventure in Dordogne, France. Robot the dog ran ahead and stopped at an overgrown depression. When the boys decided to explore the hole, they slid into a deep underground chamber where they discovered the most famous cave paintings in the world- the Lascaux Cave Paintings. In this photo, Robot the dog with two of the four cave's discoverers.

christine
The Battle of Hobkirk's Hill was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought on April 25, 1781, near Camden, South Carolina. A small American army under Nathanael Greene defended a ridge known as Hobkirk's Hill against an attack by an even smaller British force led by Francis Rawdon. After a fierce clash, Greene retreated a few miles, leaving Rawdon's soldiers in possession of the hill.

lemai13
Jayden loves the minions. The only thing better in his book than a minion is a zombie minion. He even stopped playing a video game (in the middle of a battle no less LOL) to come and look at it and he said to me, "PIN IT!!" So here is the gruesome little fellow.